2007

SPRING

THE TEXAS GUN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION - HAROLD B. SIMPSON SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT 
The Association's first endowment cheque was awarded to Hill College, Hillsborough, Texas to benefit its superb history center.

GOALS
by Brooks Baize
The essay by the first student to benefit from the scholarship endowment presented as part of the qualification and selection procedure.

TEXAS GUN COLLECTORS, COLLECTIONS, and COLLECTING - An Ongoing Series
*Guns As Investments - 50 Years Ago and Today
  by Herb Glass
  Reprinted from The Texas Gun Collector, March 1960
*From Our Past - Recognition to TGCA Member HERB GLASS

HAULIN' IN HORSE THIEVES
by Bill Welch
Another in the series by our good friend from Atlanta on the subject of bad boys and the associated WANTED posters.

OTTO'S GUN
by John Ince
A fascinating look at a Colt Super .38, a design springing from the venerable Model 1911 in the 1920's.  This pistol, which remains in the family of the man to whom it was first issued, was issued to pilots of aircraft carrying the U.S. Mails, by direction of the Postal regulations of the time. 

BOARDERS AWAY
by Bill and Lynda Grieves
The story of an exceptional eighteenth century boarding pistol, probably carried by a seaman of some higher rank in an era when piracy on the high seas was in its prime.

MARSHALL BOLAND'S ENGRAVED SINGLE ACTION, RAPID CITY, DAKOTA TERRITORY
by Charles Klingler
Featuring a reprint of an article from GUNS Magazine in 1982.

THE DURANGO KERR REVOLVER
A Gun Involved In Two Significant Events
by David Johnstone
A fine study on a London Kerr revolver conversion and its association with the American Civil War and the Spanish American War (on the side of the Spaniards).

BOOK REVIEW
Former TGCA President Roger Muckerheide reviews Old Guns and Whispering Ghosts - Tales and Twists of the Old West by Jesse L. "Wolf" Hardin.
 

IN MEMORY of DAVID PAUL MARSHALL
by Bob Eder
Mr. Eder remembers his long time friend and co-conspirator, David Marshall.

NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD SUBJECT - The Colt Second Contract Dragoon
by Tom Power
A further look at the characteristics peculiar to the Second Contract Dragoons from Colonel Colt, with an updated listing of those copies known to be extant.

THE DECADE OF DEATH (for the American Bison) 1872 - 1882
by Lynn Chenault
A thorough look at the men who hunted the plains bison almost to extinction, and the weapons they used.

MEMBER PROFILE & TRIBUTE
R.W. "Dick" Neff (1928 - 2006)
by Lynn Chenault
Another colorful old timey member has mad his transition, and the author, Dick's friend for many years, pays tribute in words and pictures.

"SGT. SANFORD HIS HORN"
by Rick Still
The author has diligently researched the life and times of the pre-ACW Militiaman, James M. Sanford, whose name is inscribed on a beautifully preserved powder horn.  The records also show that Sgt. Sanford later served as a Private Soldier in the Texas Infantry during the War of Northern Aggression.

A VIEW OF THE BRIDGE
by David Johnstone
Copies of the ubiquitous Colt Pocket Model of 1849 with cylinder scenes depicting the notorious and often "sold" Brooklyn Bridge are the subject of this absorbing article. Generally made in Belgium and Germany, these pistols add another fascinating specialized facet to the gem we know as Gun Collecting.

TEXAS GUN COLLECTORS, COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTING
Another look back to the early history of TGCA and the collectors who were its backbone for many years.  In this reprint from the July 1953 edition of The Texas Gun Collector we learn about one of these well-known characters, Harry Knode.

PATERSON AND WALKER COLTS FOUND IN SAN ANTONIO
by Kurt House
Learning that the popular NPR television show, The Antiques Roadshow, was to be recorded from San Antonio, and that the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum was to be featured, former T.G.C.A. President Kurt House was dispatched to write a report on that side event.  There he met with Roadshow's Chris Mitchell, actor Mark Walberg, and another former T.G.C.A. President, Mike Clark, to inspect and discuss the development of and the history associated with Colt's Paterson and Walker revolvers.

FRONTIER DENVER
Carlos Gove's Denver Armory, J.P. Lower's Sportsman's Depot
by Bill Welch
A prolific contributor, the author offers this account of "Colt's distribution to the West".  Seemingly, Gove and Lower were once in partnership in Denver, but eventually split in about 1875 and each became distributors of Colt's single actions.